APOLLO OF 2000 YEARS AGO.
FIND IN POMPEII STREET OF ABUNDANCE. NAPLES, May 25. A large bronze statue about . Oft in height, believed to, represent Apollo, was excavated in the Via Dell Abboudanza (the Street of Abundance) yesterday in Pompeii, the ancient city which was destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The statue is in a good state of preservation and it is stated to be of good value. It has been taken to Naples Museum, where it will be examined by the Superintendent of Monuments to determine its artistic and historical value. Experts declare that the bronze Apollo statue may prove the most important discovery of its kind for many years. It is stated to be perfect in all its details. It was found only a little way below the ground. It was in the Street of Abundance four years ago that several notes on ivory tablets from patrician girls to successful gladiators were found. A translation of one of these love letters of 2000 years ago reads:— Art thou Phoebus Apollo in the body of Hercules? Indeed thou art a god to me. Thy beauty and strength have blotted from my eyes all other men. I am young and the * suitors I despise say that I am beautiful. I will await thee, beloved one, near the Temple\of Isis.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1925, Page 2
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223APOLLO OF 2000 YEARS AGO. Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1925, Page 2
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